*> *> > the acknowledgements section was intended for folks who wrote *> > pieces, or folks who suggested useful ideas, or provided significant *> > useful corrections, etc. The contributors section was introduced in *> > conjunction with the effort to reduce the set of authors to those *> > who wrote the primary text. So Contributors is usually used for *> > those who wrote sections of text, but not enough to be authors. *> *> These rules are perfectly reasonable (even if they would cost me my *> acknowledgment in draft-ietf-ltru-matching) but: *> *> 1) They do not seem to be written somewhere. I cannot find them in the *> RFCs talking about RFCs (meta-RFCs? IPODs?). The text in Section 2.12 of RFC223bis is intended to state these guidelines. See: ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc-editor/instructions2authors.txt The RFC Editor would be happy to receive suggestions for augmentation or modification of the text in this section. Bob Braden for the RFC Editor _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf